Broaching the subject with Everett... to spice things up more often?

For Dorothy, this was a mountain too steep to climb.

How on earth was she supposed to bring it up?

"I should just drop it. What if Everett... Maybe he's just too worn out from work, and that's why he's not in the mood?"

Wouldn't she just be wounding his pride then?

Karen smacked her lips, freshly changed and walking out with Dorothy, chatting away.

"So, what you're saying is, Everett's not up for it in the bedroom anymore?!"

Just as Dorothy was about to respond, out of the corner of her eye, she spotted Jeffrey and Everett standing side by side not too far away.

All four of them fell silent, the awkwardness thick enough to cut with a knife.

At that moment....

Dorothy wondered if Everett had caught that last part...

was stiff until Jeffrey suddenly burst into laughter, bending over in

here complaining

Dorothy's heart just

teased Everett, "Yeah, Dorothy was just telling me how things

his

that moment, Dorothy wished she could just dig a hole and

topic with Karen

didn't

this direction, but then she

"What exactly?"

wrapping an arm around

not what

with urgency, struggling to find

behind her ear before whispering, "You know, you could've just told me directly. Venting

"I wasn't venting!"

say his frequency

laugh, Dorothy knew she was in

...

the Bay

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